White Paper on AI Regulation in Ukraine: the Vision of the Ministry of Digital Transformation (consultation version)

Summary

Consultation document explaining Ukraine's two-stage, bottom-up approach to AI regulation. Stage one, planned for two to three years without mandatory rules, provides preparatory tools: a regulatory sandbox based on the EU AI Act, a methodology for assessing AI's impact on human rights, AI labelling tools, voluntary codes of conduct, general and sectoral recommendations (starting with media) and a responsible-AI web portal. Stage two is a law analogous to the EU AI Act, with an indicative timeline of a draft law in 2026–2027. Defence applications are excluded. The paper also proposes cooperation with large AI platforms and documents public concern about uncontrolled AI and manipulation.

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Status notes

Presented by the Ministry of Digital Transformation on 26 June 2024 as a consultation version dated June 2024; comments were invited for three months from publication. The ministry describes it as analytical material, not a public-policy analytical document within the meaning of the Law on Law-making Activity. It was prepared with support from USAID's Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity and the Digital Transformation Activity supported by USAID and UK Dev. It builds on the Roadmap for AI regulation developed by the ministry's Expert Committee on AI, and offers voluntary AI labelling of training data, algorithms and decision space through a web form. On 15 June 2026 the ministry reported the first meeting of a joint working group that is to draft a dedicated AI law aligned with EU rules during 2026.

Sources

Open the official source https://storage.thedigital.gov.ua/files/d/9d/0bbc3a705c821a197bedfcdfe00899d9.pdf

Secondary source: https://thedigital.gov.ua/news/shtuchnyy-intelekt/vid-samorehuliatsiyi-do-yevropeyskykh-pravyl-hotuyemo-profilnyy-zakon-pro-shtuchnyy-intelekt-v-ukrayini

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1. 2026-10-17notes: Dated June 2024 and presented on 26 June 2024 according to press reports. The mi → Presented by the Ministry of Digital Transformation on 26 June 2024 as a consult — rewritten: the statement on the Verkhovna Rada removed (no stored file); the presentation date and the donor projects now rest on the stored Cabinet item; the three-month comment period, the link to the Roadmap, the voluntary labelling form and the June 2026 working group added2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17date_published: 2024-06 → 2024-06-26 — the Cabinet of Ministers' news item (official) shows the ministry presented the White Paper and made it available on 26 June 2024; the PDF itself gives only June 20242026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

Ukraine AI Regulation Roadmap (2023) Ukraine · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. White Paper on AI Regulation in Ukraine: the Vision of the Ministry of Digital Transformation (consultation version). 2024-06-26. https://storage.thedigital.gov.ua/files/d/9d/0bbc3a705c821a197bedfcdfe00899d9.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/UA-02/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:16:20 UTC, SHA-256 c0611a5df47d530c3f3f06b7215329d2b05dc1188d73f917a8ad190db545f728. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record UA-02.

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